Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac

Duluoz, the protagonist previously of DOCTOR SAX, has written a book entitled ON THE ROAD. Suddenly, he's deified by young people who pursue him in search of wisdom. Overwhelmed, Duluoz runs to Big Sur, to revisit his own past. Alcoholic, alone in his cabin, he disintegrates--then goes back home.

Editions of Big Sur

ISBN 9781599124322	Binding/Format Audio	Publisher Iofy	Date 1998	Price None Available
ISBN 9780070342064	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher McGraw-Hill	Date 1981	Price $9.00	Good
ISBN 9780140168129	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1992	Price $5.49	Very Good
ISBN 9780786196593	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2002	Price $21.23	New
ISBN 9780786198870	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2002	Price $33.51	NEW

Media Reviews

"Now at last Kerouac has begun to fulfill the promises of humor and pathos that could be found among the goopy pretenses of his...other books...[T]he portrait of the beat monster trying to escape from his role, to regain his role, to grow up, to remain a child, is in focus, troubling and touching."

First Line

The church is blowing a sad windblown "Kathleen" on the bells in the skid row slums as I wake up all woebegone and goopy, groaning from another drinking bout and groaning most of all because I'd ruined my "secret return" to San Francisco by getting silly drunk while hiding in the alleys with bums and then marching forth into North Beach to see everybody altho Lorenz Monsanto and I'd exchanged huge letters outlining how I would sneak in quietly, call him on the phone using a code name like Adam Yulch or Lalagy Pulvertaft (also writers) and then he would secretly drive me to his cabin in the Big Sur woods where I would be alone and undisturbed for six weeks just chopping wood, drawing water, writing, sleeping, hiking, etc. etc.

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